Title:
Is glue production by seeds of Salvia columbariae a deterrent to desert granivores?

dc.contributor.author Fuller, Patricia J. en_US
dc.contributor.author Hay, Mark E. en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of Marine Sciences en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2011-01-31T20:10:44Z
dc.date.available 2011-01-31T20:10:44Z
dc.date.issued 1983-08
dc.description DOI: 10.2307/1937217
dc.description © Ecological Society of America en_US
dc.description.abstract With a few notable exceptions (Borchert and Jain 1978, Inouye et at. 1980, O'Dowd and Hay 1980, Hay and Fuller 1981), most ecological studies on seed-granivore interactions in arid communities have concentrated on the adaptations and ecology of the granivores and not on characteristics of the seeds that may deter granivory. Since a large portion of the annual seed crop of many desert ephemerals is lost to seed predators (Chew and Chew 1970, French et al. 1974, Nelson and Chew 1977, Brown et al. 1979), characteristics that significantly reduce losses to granivores should be strongly selected. In this paper we show that under natural conditions seeds of the desert annual Salvia columhariae produce a glue-like substance when wetted that strongly binds sand grains to the seeds, and that seeds thus covered by sand suffer significantly less loss to desert granivores. en_US
dc.identifier.citation Fuller, Patricia J. and Mark E. Hay. 1983. Is glue production by seeds of Salvia columbariae a deterrent to desert granivores? Ecology 64:960-963. en_US
dc.identifier.doi 10.2307/1937217
dc.identifier.issn 0012-9658
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/36772
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.publisher.original Ecological Society of America
dc.subject Seed-granivore interactions en_US
dc.subject Granivory deterrence en_US
dc.subject Desert ephemerals en_US
dc.subject Seed predators en_US
dc.subject Salvia columhariae en_US
dc.subject Glue production by seed coats en_US
dc.title Is glue production by seeds of Salvia columbariae a deterrent to desert granivores? en_US
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dc.type.genre Article
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local.contributor.author Hay, Mark E.
local.contributor.corporatename College of Sciences
local.contributor.corporatename School of Biological Sciences
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